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• Why Australia’s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate

  26-04-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Global warming sceptics now argue it is more palatable with the electorate to pivot from climate denialism to anti-renewable energy scepticismElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe only regular meeting of Australia’s Sa
  
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• Fears Trump’s deep-sea mining order will irreparably harm ecosystems

  26-04-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Environment groups say Thursday order ignores effort to adopt rules to prevent harmful mining of ocean floorEnvironmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ongoing process to adopt international rules for the practice.Trump’s Thursday order directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fast-track permits for companies to mine the ocean fl
  
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• ‘Smart, green thinking’: four innovative London council carbon offset projects

  26-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Council housing microgrid and tube-powered heat network among schemes supported by Mayor of London fundLondon councils yet to spend £130m in local climate fundsCarbon offset funding received from developers should be spent mostly on energy efficiency, renewable energy and district heating projects, according to guidance from the mayor of London. But some councils say the amount of funding they receive is often not enough to cover the cost of these kinds of projects.However, others have fou
  
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• London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds

  26-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Local authorities have spent less than £40m out of £170m collected since offsetting scheme began in 2016‘Smart, green thinking’: four innovative London council carbon-offset projectsLondon councils are sitting on more than £130m that should be funding local climate action, the Guardian can reveal.More than £170m has been collected through the mayor of London’s carbon offset fund, which developers are required to pay into to mitigate emissions
  
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• How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips

  26-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguidedJohn F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”While it is truer to say that the race for space between Washington and Moscow was driven as much by co
  
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• Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

  26-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?If you find it difficult to think of a river as alive, try picturing a dying or dead river. This is easier. We know what this looks like. We know how it feels. A dying river is one who does not reach the sea. A dying river’s fish float belly-up in stagnant pools. Swans on the upper Thames near Windsor now wear brown tidemarks on the
  
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• Spring's hot weather to be treat for nature lovers

  26-04-2025 08:47 via bbc.com
  A spell of hot weather will give a boost to nature as migratory birds return and butterflies emerge.
  
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• More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste

  26-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Inadequate record keeping means councils do not know whether former waste sites contain toxic substancesMore than 100 old landfills in England that may be contaminated with toxic substances have flooded since 2000, potentially posing a serious safety risk, it can be revealed.Some of these former dumps containing possibly hazardous materials sit directly next to public parks and housing estates with hundreds of households, the analysis by the Greenpeace-funded journalism website Unearthed , in pa
  
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• Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions

  26-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature riseRich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger, some of the world’s most vulnerable nations have warned.All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far only a small majority have done so, and some of the plans submitted have b
  
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• ‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier Reef

  26-04-2025 02:00 via theguardian.com
  The Anohni and the Johnsons singer is collaborating with marine scientists for two special shows at Sydney’s Vivid festival that will show the reef’s plight Anohni Hegarty is about to go to the Great Barrier Reef for the first time. “I feel like I’m going to Auschwitz,” she says nervously. “On the one hand, I’m so excited to go because the landscape is so beautiful, and I know there’s going to be so much that’s gorgeous. And yet, I’m al
  
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